Regenative Farming and Countryside Management news

UK food security: the maths no one wants to talk about: By 2050, the UK is forecast to: • Lose 41% of its agricultural land • Grow its population by ~18% • Increase food self-sufficiency from 60% to 75% Put simply, that means producing 25% more food, for more people, on far less land. To make those numbers work, the remaining farmland would need to produce around 2.5× more food than it does today. That isn’t a political argument.... It’s arithmetic. In Part 1 of this short series, I set out the maths behind UK food security — and why, under current assumptions, it simply doesn’t add up. 👉 Part 2 will look at why policy is making this problem worse, not better. #FoodSecurity #BritishFarming #LandUse #Agriculture #FoodSovereignty #UKPolicy

Sustainability in UK farming is still treated as an add-on, not the foundation of profitable farming. This blog challenges the gap between government rhetoric and reality, showing how current incentives pay for actions, not outcomes, and ignore risk, context and long-term profitability. With less land, higher standards and more volatility, regenerative agriculture will only scale when sustainability is designed as a profit-making strategy, not a “nice to have”. If sustainability isn’t driving profit, how can it ever stick? #UKAgriculture #FoodSecurity #SustainableFarming #RegenerativeAgriculture #FarmProfitability #LandUse #FoodSystem #RuralPolicy